Miguel Oliveira wants to increase his KTM win record and makes a “100% commitment”. The Portuguese rider announced that from 2023 he will race for RNF, an Aprilia satellite.

Portuguese Miguel Oliveira said on Tuesday he hopes to extend his MotoGP World Championship winning record with KTM, even as he announced he will ride for Aprilia satellite RNF from 2023.

In Almada, still a rider of the Austrian factory team, he recalled his winning past on KTM, with which he took the “biggest step” of his career, “the move to the top category of MotoGP”, and confirmed his full commitment until the last moment. race of the season.

“Together we have achieved 37 podiums, 14 of which were victories, so I am very proud of this journey. Since racing is still ongoing this season, I believe this number can still be increased. This is our hope until the last lap of the Valencia Grand Prix,” said the driver.

In this sense, he suggested that the “commitment” of his current team until the end of the season is “100% guaranteed”, despite the fact that he is no longer going to test things with an eye to the future next weekend in Misano, as “technical cooperation will cease” between the parties.

“I’ll take advantage of everything I can get this year. And it is from this point of view of unlocking my potential and the potential of my team until the end of the last lap in Valencia. The future, obviously, will not be jeopardized at the end of this season, they will go their separate ways,” assured the future RSF racer.

So while he admits to being “hopeful” for a future with the RNF, he said he is “looking forward to going to Italy” on Wednesday for the San Marino Grand Prix over the weekend.

“There are still many steps to be taken before we reach this goal. It is obvious that when thinking about the future, we always think positively, with great hope and desire for it to come, but at the same time we understand that the present is the most important. important thing at this moment,” he emphasized.

However, Oliveira admitted that KTM offered him a position in Tech3, “which at the time was not called a seat in the GasGas Factory Racing team”, and that “it was at that moment” that he realized that he “could reconsider my future”. “at the World Speed ​​Championship.

Ducati, namely through a seat “in Gresini and not in another team”, was also a hypothesis put “on the table”, but the rider explained that the “time” was chosen incorrectly.

Miguel Oliveira, 27, ends his contract at the end of the season with Austrian constructor KTM, with whom he made his MotoGP debut in 2019, at Tech3, and joins the factory team in 2021.

The driver from Almada, currently 10th in the drivers’ standings with 85 points, 115 less than the Frenchman Fabio Quartararo, leader and world champion, has four victories in the motorsport queen category, including triumphs in Portimão and Styria. in 2020, Barcelona last year and Indonesia this season.

The ninth place achieved in 2020 was the best result achieved by Oliveira in the MotoGP World Championship, who was 14th in 2021 and finished 17th in his debut year.

Before joining MotoGP, Miguel Oliveira was world runner-up in Moto3 in 2015 and Moto2 in 2018, both on a KTM, behind Englishman Danny Kent and Italian Francesco Bagnaia respectively.

Next season, the Portuguese driver’s partner in the RSF will be the Spaniard Raul Fernandez, who represents Tech3 this season.

At KTM, Miguel Oliveira will be replaced by Australian Jack Miller, who will join South African Brad Binder on the factory team.

RNF Racing is a Malaysian team that debuted in the 2022 MotoGP Championship in partnership with Yamaha and will have an agreement with Aprilia from next year.

In the current championship, they played for the team of Razlan Razali, whose name uses the first letters of the names of his children (Razali, Nadia and Farouk), the Italian Andrea Dovizioso and the South African Darrin Binder, the younger brother of the current Brad Binder. teammate of Miguel Oliveira at KTM.